Always obey your parents - when they are present.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.

Use the right word, not its second cousin.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.